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Russians destroyed it not Ukraine

I think Ukraine are of the opinion that the Bridge needs to come down regardless of the state of antipathy between the two countries as it was built in rather a hurry for such a project and wasn't build to an acceptable standard

That really is prime subject matter for this topic Gris FFS

September 2023 was their estimate last week. They found they needed more spans than they though and both carriageways were fubarred not one. And that was the Russians saying it.

They may not need to attack over the river. Russia will have to pull a significant amount of troops from somewhere to defend the left bank regardless of Ukraines intended direction of attack. That in itself could be the house of cards collapsing. If weaknesses now appear around Zaporizhya, they could punch through behind the newly created defence lines. There's no way the ground between there and the south of the Dnipro is heavily defended

The actual plan to evacuate Kherson was clearly made a while ago and the generals planning it did the right thing, they reinforced the Left bank, three trench lines, concrete pills boxes every 100 meters or so, so troops on the left bank could cover those retreating across the river But I can't believe the public announcement was part of the plan as the final orders to retreat clearly hadn't been given and the NCOs and junior officers on the right bank clearly aren't capable of on the spot decision making (that is perfectly in line with Russian doctrine) There's also a lot of other dumb stuff too, the Russians spent the last few days scuttling or removing outboard motors from all the civilian boats moored in Kherson, when there is a shortage of.... boats It's basically become every man for himself on the right bank and they've herded themselves like sheep onto the riverbank waiting to cross, they are sitting ducks That death count tomorrow is going to be the highest we've ever seen by some margin and it will now really only be a guess The Russians also blew the railway bridge last night, which was the only way they had to get any heavy ordnance off the right bank. They probably needed to when they did it but they should have been getting it out of there slowly without the announcement being made The importance to Putin of the home front propaganda over the lives of his men, his countrymen, the rump of his experienced contracted soldiers has cost them dearly WIthout the strength on the left bank, they really might just have opened up Crimea and to defend the left bank, they will have to rapidly strengthen it but from where? It can only be strengthened with the mobilised and they won't last long and more importantly it will significantly weaken the other fronts. This really could be a massive turning point

I think there's a quote from a Putin spokesman yesterday saying that Putin left it to Shoigu and the generals

Yep, it totally misleading. It loks like a Luther Van DROSS album. It's also a bit lacking with only 9 tracks

Sum it up in one word...

I've been watching the excellent series 1971: The Year that Music Changed Everything and was watching the GSH / Aretha Franklin / Black Panthers episode so this went on when I got up I think I need a more comprehensive Best of

All the people who didn't get Peter Kay tickets bought it all up so they could watch it dry

The same that people live in houses with magnolia walls

Twitter doesn't have a share price anymore. You'll only find out what its worth when he sells it (or some of it) or it implodes because he won't pay the bills I'd think a partial sell off of shares is highly unlikely to be succesful with Musk still at the helm so its sell or kill

Last day of the working week for most of the hybrid workers that get to choose their days

Tying themselves in knots

I can supply petrol, a bottle and a rag?

Sprouts are better microwaved than boiled

Murdoch turning is very significant

Yep, this is my logic too

Is Baldrick in charge of this plan? Ukraine as good as said this was their plan two weeks ago so they aren't just going to march into Kherson triumphantly.. They'll go in house at a time, searching for 5th columnists, collaborators and booby traps.

He's been f***ing rested as long as I've owned him. Bitter, me, nah I think with my free this week i'm going Mount for Saka, I've trying not to go for him as I want more of a differential but I may end up doing it anyway as Almiron is even less of a differential. I'm sticking with Foden